Cucurbita pepo
Golden yellow fruits have smooth, tender skin. Extremely productive.
This Burpee-bred squash has golden yellow fruits with smooth, tender skin. Its extremely productive and best picked when 4-6″ long. Proven tops for performance, flavor and wide adaptability. Summer squash and zucchini ripen early and are highly productive. The bush type plants take little space. After danger of frost, sow 3 to 4 seeds in groups 3 to 4 apart or sow 6″ apart in rows, later thinning to 3 apart. 50 Days
- Harvest when fruits are small and the skin is shiny. Harvest often. To keep summer squash producing pick all fruit at this stage. If fruit is allowed to mature the plant may stop producing.
- To pick summer squash give the fruit a gentle twist until it snaps off.
- Store summer squash in plastic bags in the refrigerator for up to a week.
- Male squash blossoms are also delicious and sweet, try dipping in batter and frying.